wick-slack-replies

wick-slack-replies is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogasw/wick. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,261 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for Slack messages, where mrkdwn is Slack's text format and differs from ordinary Markdown.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before writing Slack replies to format messages, links, lists, tables, headings, and code correctly.
Why use it?
It prevents replies from appearing with broken bold text, headings, links, tables, or code formatting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before writing Slack replies to format messages, links, lists, tables, headings, and code correctly.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogasw/wick/wick-slack-replies
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add yogasw/wick --skill wick-slack-replies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogasw/wick

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,261 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00086 $0.01261
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00630
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00126

Measured 8d ago against content hash e2c9dddc4a55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wick-slack-replies scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

internal/agents/skillsync/builtin/wick-slack-replies/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing replies that land well in Slack

Slack does not render markdown. It renders mrkdwn, a different syntax that overlaps just enough to be misleading. wick posts your reply text to Slack as-is — there is no markdown-to-mrkdwn conversion in the send path — so whatever you type is what Slack tries to parse.

That single fact causes most bad-looking Slack replies: **bold** arrives as literal asterisks, ## Heading as a literal ##, and a markdown table as a jumble of pipes.

The syntax that differs

Intent Markdown (web chat) mrkdwn (Slack)
Bold **bold** *bold*
Italic *italic* or _italic_ _italic_
Strikethrough ~~gone~~ ~gone~
Link [label](https://x) <https://x|label>
Heading ## Title none — use *Title* on its own line
Table pipe table none — use lines or a code block
Bullet - item • item (a literal - also reads fine)
Inline code `code` `code` (same)
Code block ```lang ```no language tag

Note the trap in the first two rows: *text* means bold in mrkdwn but italic in markdown. They are not interchangeable.

The practical strategy

You usually do not know for certain which surface a reply lands on, and the same text may be read in both. So write for the intersection rather than switching dialects:

  • Prefer plain prose and short paragraphs. They render identically everywhere.
  • Skip headings. On Slack a ## is literal noise. If you need a section label, put a short bolded line or just start a new paragraph.
  • Skip tables for Slack-bound replies. Use a short list of label: value lines, or a code block if alignment genuinely matters.
  • Use - bullets. They read fine on both.
  • Keep it short. Slack messages are read in a narrow column, usually on a phone. A wall of text that scans fine in the web chat is unreadable there.

When you know the reply is Slack-only — a channel notification, an alert, a workflow posting to a channel — write native mrkdwn (*bold*, <url|label>) and it will look right.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 89 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A e2c9dddc4a55

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wick-slack-replies is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogasw/wick (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,261 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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